MODULE 3 - ASSESSMENT
ASSESSING PROGRESS AND ACHIEVEMENT

Unit 3.1: Assessing learners' progress

The teacher/trainer needs to be clear about essential questions when considering assessment - why we assess, what we assess, how we assess it, and how and to whom we report the outcomes of assessment.

The teacher/trainer can carry out formative assessment - assessment for learning - in various ways to help ensure that learning requirements and objectives are being met on a continuous basis and to inform further teaching and learning. He or she needs to be able to collect, interpret and summarise such information correctly and effectively. The information may be used by a variety of users, where appropriate, such as colleagues, senior management, parents, and sponsors. The information also is an important part of the teacher/trainer's own records of progress by the group and the individuals within the group.

3.1.1 Prepare formative assessments
Review and select appropriate assessment(s) from a range of possible methods, and make proper arrangements to ensure efficient, reliable and accurate use.
3.1.2 Use formative assessments
Manage assessment to ensure fairness and to facilitate performance
3.1.3 Analyse formative assessment data
Analyse data produced by formative assessment with care concerning the reliable information it conveys
3.1.4 Provide feedback about progress
Give learners and other interested people as much constructive feedback as possible, based upon the outcomes of formative assessment
3.1.5 Maintain records of learners' progress
Devise and maintain systematic, useful and usable records of learners' progress.

 

Unit 3.2: Assessing learners' achievement

Following on from assessing learners' progress, the teacher/trainer is responsible for assessing learners' achievement of agreed learning outcomes for the whole learning programme, using a variety of methods. Summative assessment - assessment of learning - covers all aspects of making judgements about the standard of achievement and providing feedback to learners.

3.2.1 Prepare summative assessments
Review and select appropriate assessment(s) from a range of possible methods, and make proper arrangements to ensure efficient, reliable and accurate use.
3.2.2 Use summative assessments
Manage assessment to ensure fairness and to facilitate achievement
3.2.3 Analyse summative assessment data
Analyse data produced by summative assessment with care concerning the reliable information it conveys
3.2.4 Provide feedback about achievement
Give learners and other interested people as much constructive feedback as possible, based upon the outcomes of summative assessment
3.2.5 Maintain records of learners' achievement
Devise and maintain systematic, useful and usable records of learners' achievement
 
 
     
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